{"id":1418317,"date":"2022-04-04T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418317"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:45:20","slug":"mehmet-oz-in-2018-pushed-amnesty-for-illegal-alien-youths-i-think-the-dreamers-are-being-used-as-political-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mehmet-oz-in-2018-pushed-amnesty-for-illegal-alien-youths-i-think-the-dreamers-are-being-used-as-political-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehmet Oz in 2018 Pushed Amnesty for Illegal Alien Youths: \u2018I Think the Dreamers Are Being Used as Political Points\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmehmet-oz-in-2018-pushed-amnesty-for-illegal-alien-youths-i-think-the-dreamers-are-being-used-as-political-points%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor now running as a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, as recently as 2018 was publicly advocating for amnesty for illegal alien youths.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in an interview with Asli Pelit in 2018 what he thinks about so-called \u201cDREAMERs,\u201d Oz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aslipelit.com\/news-1\/2018\/12\/11\/dr-oz-immigrants-make-this-country-a-better-place\">replied<\/a> that he thought the illegal alien youths were being used by both parties to score \u201cpolitical points.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think the DREAMERs are being used as political points and both parties are gonna have to figure that out \u2013 people should not be penalized because we can\u2019t get our thoughts together,\u201d Oz replied.<\/p>\n<p>Oz also pushed for lifting quotas on the number of migrants America brings into the country legally, advocating specifically for more doctors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do need an immigration policy, I believe, that rewards merit,\u201d Oz said. \u201cIf I\u2019m trying to bring a heart surgeon to America\u2026 why would that be hindered because of some abstract quota that no one can defend? I can understand, you don\u2019t want immigrants who are undocumented, may be have dangerous past\u2026 I get all the politics, but we don\u2019t want to penalize the dreamers for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This 2018 interview is not the only time Oz promoted the cause of illegal alien youths. In the summer of 2019, the celebrity doctor who now claims to be a Republican tweeted a photo of himself meeting with a group of so-called DREAMERs. In the tweet he said in part that the illegal alien youths were \u201cbuilding themselves and America\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was proud to meet with this incredible group of Dreamers to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ImmigrantHeritageMonth?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ImmigrantHeritageMonth<\/a>. They\u2019ve all graduated school and are pursuing careers building themselves and America. Thanks for stopping by! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3k3lWING21\">pic.twitter.com\/3k3lWING21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1136368789753421824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oz\u2019s history with immigration is particularly tenuous, as his ownership in a family company that was issued the largest fine ever in the history of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a scheme of hiring and rehiring illegal aliens has been a front-and-center campaign matter. The New York Post unveiled the explosive revelations earlier this year, and the story has beset the Oz campaign since.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW from me<\/p>\n<p>A company owned by Dr. Oz&#8217;s family received a $95 million fine from ICE in 2017 over a scheme to hire illegal aliens <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wphRHrZg7x\">https:\/\/t.co\/wphRHrZg7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1492535700708864012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s more, while Oz was born in Ohio, his parents being from Turkey means he has citizenship both in the autocracy and in the United States. Oz served in the Turkish military by choice\u2014but not in the United States military\u2014to maintain his dual citizenship, and he continues to maintain it to this day. Oz has, under immense pressure from campaign rivals, said he will renounce his Turkish citizenship if he is elected to the U. S. Senate\u2014but he continues to keep the dual loyalties for now. He says the reason he will not relinquish Turkish citizenship and pledge allegiance solely to the United States is because his mother, who has Alzheimer\u2019s, is in a facility in Turkey and he maintains the dual loyalties so he can care for her.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Washington Post, this arrangement, should Oz not follow through on his campaign promise to ditch his Turkish citizenship after the election, would be unprecedented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor now running as a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, as recently as 2018 was publicly advocating for amnesty for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}